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Treviso, Italy, is emerging as a sustainable and culturally rich alternative to Venice, winning the European Green Leaf Award for its environmental efforts, including transforming landfills into solar parks, modernizing water infrastructure, and promoting eco-friendly tourism and agriculture, all while maintaining its historic charm and culinary traditions.
Mamdani connects climate policy with his affordability agenda in his New York mayoral campaign, emphasizing green infrastructure, rent freezes, and public transit to address climate change while ensuring economic justice, aiming to build broad support and protect working-class residents from environmental and economic hardships.
Parisians voted to triple parking fees for out-of-town SUVs in the city center, aiming to reduce congestion, pollution, and traffic accidents. The measure, supported by over 54% of voters, will come into effect from September 1, with fees reaching 18 euros per hour for the first two hours and escalating to 225 euros for a six-hour stay. Mayor Anne Hidalgo's initiative is part of a broader effort to make Paris greener and more pedestrian-friendly, ahead of the upcoming Olympic Games.
Parisians voted to triple parking fees for out-of-town SUVs, making it 18 euros per hour in the city center, as part of Mayor Anne Hidalgo's efforts to reduce pollution and make the city greener ahead of the Olympics. The measure aims to discourage the use of large, polluting vehicles and prioritize pedestrians and cyclists. The low-turnout election saw 54% support for the measure, with concerns about SUVs taking up too much space, polluting the environment, and causing more traffic accidents. The increased fees would apply to SUVs weighing 1.6 tons or more and 2 tons or more if fully electric, with the highest cost reaching 225 euros for a six-hour stay.
Cities worldwide have developed bikeways with new urgency since 2020, as millions of people turned to cycling during the pandemic. Many cities have seized the opportunity to expand safe cycling, with some steps phasing out as the virus has faded, but many have stuck, thanks to an increase in lanes with permanent barriers against traffic, central arteries where cars can’t go, and other concessions to a pent-up demand to get around without gas. Environmental concerns have also been a motivation for many people to ditch cars for bikes, a choice that researchers say has clear benefits in reducing carbon emissions and curbing pollution.